Thanks John for your comment. It would mean that people logging with an email will have a default account (lowest ID with the same email or whatever rule).
For authorship Wikimedia doesn't encourage multiple account names (multiple (>3?) pseudos are blamed). And usually, for a corporate wiki you don't have multiple accounts. If you decide to change your name for any reason (divorce for example) you are supposed to have a (new) unique name. You usually can also have email aliases. And if you want to log on a specific account name, you can copy and paste your account name (if your keyboard doesn't allow you to enter your real, not transliterated, name). Thus, I am not sure that it is strong objection for corporate wikis at least. PS: I am trying to understand how to have a working MyAuthPlugin.php and to get the email in authenticate but it requires time and I haven't found so many examples on the Web. Any hint or comment is welcome. Nicolas Le 13 févr. 2012 à 19:20, John Du Hart a écrit : > Right now users are allowed to link multiple accounts to the same email, so > (unless that's a configuration option) it would need to be fixed to > ensure that emails are unique. > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Nicolas Brouard INED <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi again, >> >> I am reformulating my (unanswered yet) question: would it be useful and easy >> on a standard mediawiki site or even on wikipedia sites, to allow login >> authentication by not only offering the unique pair (user_name; >> user_password) but also the pair (user_email; user_password)? >> >> Some pro arguments are that: >> - email addresses are transliterated and can be entered easily on any >> keyboard >> - Unicode user_name can be entered once (at registration) in Cyrillic or >> Arabic or Chinese or French in a way that authors can choose. With Unicode, >> English transliteration of authorship is no more mandatory and may be >> unattractive if your text has to be read locally. >> >> Some cons are: >> - how to change the PHP code (I am confused with authplugin.php squelettes) >> for authentication and HTML of Special:UserLogin by adding the mail address: >> Username (or mail address): |___________________| >> Password: |___________________| >> >> - is there any security issue in allowing both options? >> - is there any other code to alter? >> >> Many thanks for any hint (or code)? >> >> Nicolas >> >> >> Le 10 févr. 2012 à 17:18, Nicolas Brouard INED a écrit : >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> We are managing Demopaedia.org, a site which aims to give access to old and >>> recent versions of the Multilingual Demographic Dictionary (United Nations >>> since 1958). >>> About 15 languages are already available in the first >>> (en-i.demopaedia.org/wiki/10) or second edition >>> (en-ii.demopaedia.org/wiki/10). >>> >>> A secondary aim is to open an encyclopedia (en.demopaedia.org) on the >>> Scientific Study of Population, based on the corpus of terms already >>> validated by the dictionary. >>> >>> Based on mediawiki (1.16 moving to 1.18), the site is a corporate site. >>> People allowed to edit need to sign under their professional real name. >>> Currently their login name (user_name) is their real name (not a pseudo), >>> sometimes transliterated without accent and in roman characters (but not >>> always, see Михаил Денисенко on >>> http://ru-ii.demopaedia.org/w/index.php?title=90&action=history). Their >>> e-mail address is also mandatory. >>> >>> I would like to change their login process by entering their e-mail address >>> as a login and having their real name in the history as well as for >>> authorship. The simplest way could be that the user_name, user_real_name >>> and user_email fields are kept intact, but the login process is >>> authenticated by the e-mail address, keeping the same password that they >>> have entered. Thus people could have a unalterable user_name (given by me), >>> a user_real_name which could have accents or whatever and an e-mail address >>> that they could change. >>> >>> And here is my question, how can I do this and do I need any of the >>> extensions like Realnames, PageHistoryRealnames, ShowRealUsernames etc. >>> >>> I spent some time googling but didn't find an easy solution. >>> >>> Many thanks for any hint. >>> >>> >>> Nicolas >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Nicolas Brouard INED >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MediaWiki-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> >> Nicolas Brouard INED >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > -- > John > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l Nicolas Brouard INED [email protected] _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
